Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 7

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• By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

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  Artist, Chance, Very Good

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

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• Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.

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  Jobs, Writing, Knowing

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• The reward for attention is always healing.

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  Healing, Attention, Rewards

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Sep 01, 2013

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• What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

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  Expansion, Payoff, Stuck

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.129, Souvenir Press

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• There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

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  Flower, Exercise, Two

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

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  Art, Progress, Taught

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.90, Penguin

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• Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

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  Kids, Trying, Rotten

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.221, Souvenir Press

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• All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

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  Magic, Imagine

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.16, Souvenir Press

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• Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

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  Wise, Order, Firsts

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• Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

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  Flower, Creativity, Green

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

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  Self, Littles, Frightening

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.77, Souvenir Press

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• People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

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  Believe, Creativity, Reality

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.114, Souvenir Press

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• We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

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  Writing, Ideas, Needs

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jul 15, 2013

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

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  Artist, Judging, Effort

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.50, Souvenir Press

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• When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

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  Inspiration, Way, Clutter

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• It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

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  Art, Pain, Adventure

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• When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

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  Life, Flower, Heart

  "Blessings". Book by Julia Cameron, 1998.

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• Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Matter

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.24, Souvenir Press

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• The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

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  Mean, Outcomes, Too Much

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.75, Penguin

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• By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

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  Listening, Path, Creator

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.127, Souvenir Press

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• Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

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  Children, Boredom, Trying

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• Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

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  Spiritual, Creativity, Body

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

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  Impact, Solitude, Routine

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.73, Penguin

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• As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

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  Art, Self, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.40, Souvenir Press

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• As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

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  Art, Pregnancy, Secret

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